Section 13-381
§ 13-381 Payments to exempt or volunteer firefighters' associations;
Queens and Richmond. a. Each of the following exempt or veteran
volunteer firefighters' associations of the boroughs of Queens and
Richmond, to wit:
1. The exempt firemen's association of the town of Newtown,
2. The exempt firemen's association, fifth ward, borough of Queens,
3. The veteran volunteer firemen's association of the village of
Jamaica,
4. The Woodhaven exempt volunteer firemen's association,
5. The exempt firemen's association of Flushing,
6. The veteran firemen's association of Long Island city,
7. The exempt firemen's association of Long Island city,
8. The exempt firemen's benevolent association of College Point,
9. The veteran firemen's association of the north shore fire
department of Staten Island,
10. The veteran and exempt volunteer firemen's association of the
Edgewater fire department of Staten Island,
11. The veteran volunteer firemen's association of Tottenville fire
department,
12. The south shore veteran and exempt firemen's association, which on
and after the first day of January, nineteen hundred fifty-two shall
own, operate and maintain a clubhouse for the benefit of the members of
such respective associations, shall be entitled to receive from and
shall be paid by the comptroller of the city, in advance of and for each
year beginning on the first day of January, the sum of forty dollars for
each bona fide member of such association, plus five hundred dollars, or
the sum of forty-five hundred dollars, whichever is less, upon
presenting to the comptroller on or after the preceding first day of
November in each year, a verified statement signed by the duly
authorized officers of such association which shall set forth the number
of living bona fide members thereof on such preceding first day of
November and which shall state further whether or not the association
owns, operates and maintains a clubhouse for the benefit of its members.
b. In determining the membership of such associations, only exempt or
honorably discharged volunteer firefighters shall be considered as
members.
c. The fire commissioner shall set aside annually, from the fines and
proceeds of suits for penalties brought by him or her under the code
which may be collected or paid in from the boroughs of Queens and Staten
Island, and from the license fees payable to him or her under the code
which may be collected or paid in from such boroughs, a sum of money
sufficient to cover the payments required to be made to the exempt or
veteran volunteer firefighters' associations as provided in subdivision
a of this section.
d. Upon receipt from the comptroller of a notification as to the
amounts required to be paid in any year in order to carry out the
provisions of subdivision a of this section, the fire commissioner shall
pay such amounts to the comptroller from the revenues set aside by such
commissioner pursuant to the provisions of subdivision c of this
section.